Companionship Quilters: 2015

Monday, May 4, 2015

April Meeting

April Group was nice! Quite a bit of Show and Tell... our 2nd Half Square Triangle Exchange month... fun!

DON'T FORGET: Our May group meeting is a week early because of Memorial Day - May 18th! (Hey, isn't that Mt. St. Helens Day?)

Our Verse from Linda - or really from God :-)

Philippians 4:6-7 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Group Projects

Barb is going to Astorga Spain to teach quilting with Cathy Crawford. They're doing a hexi project, and Barb would like our help - providing fun fabric, and making kits. We'll do a Friendship Quilting Day project either in May 16 or June 13, and I'll let you know what you can bring when we get more details!

Also, we discussed our next Global Outreach Partner (missionary) quilt project, and decided we should do one for Dan & Teresa Heath to celebrate with them their completion of the New Testament translation. We'll decide a pattern/block we can all work on, and present it at next group.

Show and Tell

One of our Show and Tell items were some cute pillows made by Eunice with VW Beetle design. She's been so kind to write up directions and share them with us! Beetle Pillow Pattern She's also got an Etsy shop - Rain City Sews. Check it out!

Show and Tell:
1. Diana's Applique Mini Quilt, 2. Victoria's new bag (made by Diana), 3. Diana's little hexis, 4. Linda's I Spy Quilt, 5. Val's Dresdens, 6. Eunice's Bug Pillow, 7. Eunice's Pillows, 8. Cindy's Seattle bag

Monday, March 16, 2015

February Group - and the HST Exchange kickoff!

We had a little fun at last quilt group! And kicked off the HST Exchange! Everyone there got instructions for the exchange and at least 4 sheets to make - which I know a bunch of you have already burned through! :-) Nice!

Here's a link to the instructions, if you weren't there. However, please get papers from me, as we are printing them out at church so they're all identical!

Show & Tell

Linda's Quilt

Linda's Asian Scrap Quilt

Linda's Baby Quilt

Linda's Stained Glass Quilt

Micha's Gift Quilt

Micha's Gift Quilt Back

Melanie's 100 Blocks Quilt

Barb's Hexi Garden Quilt

Rema's Quilt

Rema's Quilt Back (quilted & bound by Barb)

Monday, February 16, 2015

January Update and a new Exchange!

If you weren't at the January meeting, we've decided we will do a Half Square Triangle (HST) Exchange. Edyta Sitar has a wonderful video about doing triangle exchanges, and there are so many things you can do with triangles! We'll make some each month, exchange them with each other, and come up with marvelous designs! We passed around this document with lots of HST ideas! Next meeting (February 23rd) we'll hand out directions, and papers we'll print in house, so we're all working with the same thing! (Not Edyta's - they're too expensive.)

Our meeting was fun and filled with excitement for the upcoming Superbowl - too bad it didn't turn out like we wanted. :-( But Terry inspired us all with a quilt she made for her physical therapist - hopefully quilting it doesn't send her back to the therapist! It was almost done at group, and she sent a pic of it done! Nice work - and way to improvise!